The Best of DC #25 [Newsstand]

(June 1982)

[Best of DC -- Superman] (Table of Contents: 1)

table of contents / 1 page (report information)

Script

E. Nelson Bridwell

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Includes indicia at bottom of page.
Inside front cover.

The TV Show That Menaced Metropolis! (Table of Contents: 2)

Superman / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script

Cary Bates (credited)

Pencils

Curt Swan (credited)

Inks

Murphy Anderson (credited)

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

A spectacular, eye-popping feat -- nothing more than a morning exercise for the greatest hero of them all...

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Superman [classic design, angled u bottom]

Genre

superhero

Characters

Superman [Clark Kent]; Woodrow Nescott; Herbert Nescott; Kerry Nescott; Ted; Mac Nelson; Dan Marz

Synopsis

Woodrow Nescott, a teen who has lived his life quarantined due to a rare environmental disease which can create monstrous, deadly white blood cell blobs, breaks out of his home to help an actor who he believes is actually the character he portrays on TV. When the actor tries to manipulate Woodrow into killing his TV rival, Superman intervenes. The actor is absorbed by the blob and Superman finds a cure for Woodrow's condition.

Reprints

• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #422 (March 1973)

The Baby Who Walked Through Walls! (Table of Contents: 3)

The Private Life of Clark Kent / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Len Wein (credited)

Pencils

Neal Adams (credited)

Inks

Neal Adams (credited)

Colors

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Letters

Ben Oda

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Presenting another exciting escapade of the man behind the legend -- another chapter in...

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The Private Life of Clark Kent

Genre

humor; superhero

Characters

Clark Kent; Petra Lewis; Michele Lewis; Mrs. Goldstein; Lance

Synopsis

Clark is flummoxed when a child he's babysitting keeps disappearing.

Reprints

• from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #254 (July 1972)

The Girl Who Didn't Believe in Superman! (Table of Contents: 4)

Superman / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Finger

Pencils

Wayne Boring (credited)

Inks

Stan Kaye

Colors

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Letters

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Editing

Mort Weisinger

First Line of Dialogue or Text

From the jungle-wilds of Africa, to the skyscrapers of New York, the name of Superman has spread its fame!

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Superman [classic design, angled u bottom]

Genre

superhero

Characters

Lois Lane; Superman [Clark Kent / Kal-El]; Myrtle; Alice Norton; Martha Norton; John Norton

Synopsis

Superman restores the sight of a blind girl and reunites her family.

Reprints

• from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #96 (March 1955)

World Beneath the North Pole! (Table of Contents: 5)

Superman / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script

Elliot Maggin (credited)

Pencils

Curt Swan (credited)

Inks

Murphy Anderson (credited)

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

In a land very much like our own and yet so very different...

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Superman [classic design, angled u bottom]

Genre

superhero

Characters

Lois Lane; Steve Lombard; Superman [Clark Kent]; creatures of Miros (villains); Dr. Vernon Lombard; Jamie Lombard

Synopsis

Superman, along with Steve Lombard's nephew Jamie, rescue Jamie's father from Miros, a land in Earth's hollow core.

Reprints

• from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #267 (September 1973)

Superman, You're Not Clark Kent-- and I Can Prove It! (Table of Contents: 6)

Superman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Gerry Conway (credited)

Pencils

Curt Swan (credited)

Inks

Tex Blaisdell (credited)

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

High above the suburbs of Metropolis, a familiar red-and-blue costumed figure zooms through the afternoon sky, his expression grim -- his eyes almost unseeing!

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Superman [classic design, angled u bottom]

Genre

superhero

Characters

Steve Lombard; Jonathan Ross; Pete Ross; Superman [Clark Kent]; Whirlicane (1st)

Synopsis

Superman exposes his secret identity to Jonathan Ross and defeats Whirlicane.

Reprints

• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #457 (March 1976)

The Story of Superman, Junior (Table of Contents: 7)

Superman / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Jerry Coleman

Pencils

Wayne Boring (credited)

Inks

Stan Kaye

Colors

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Letters

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Editing

Mort Weisinger

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One day in Smallville, Superman's boyhood home, startled townsfolk see a flying youth perform super-feats again!

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Superman [classic design, angled u bottom]

Genre

superhero

Characters

Superboy [Clark Kent] (flashback); Superman [Clark Kent]; Superman, Junior [Johnny Kirk]; Morton Kirk

Synopsis

Johnny Kirk's father blasts him into space because he thinks Earth is soon to be destroyed by a meteor. After Superboy deflects the meteor, he asks him to find his son. But Superboy is all grown up as Superman before Johnny Kirk returns to Earth, now with super powers. But Superman's own powers are disappearing due to contact with a space poison that was on Johnny's space ship.

Reprints

• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #232 (September 1957)

Keywords

kryptonite

The Kid with the Million-Dollar Smile! (Table of Contents: 8)

The Private Life of Clark Kent / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Martin Pasko (credited)

Pencils

Curt Swan (credited)

Inks

Bob Oksner (credited)

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Dear Diary: Ordinarily, I don't mind going out on an assignment with a partner...

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The Private Life of Clark Kent

Genre

humor; superhero

Characters

Lola Barnett; Clark Kent; unnamed Museum thieves (villains); Jason Fleece; Selma Fleece

Synopsis

Clark and Lola Barnett deal with a bratty child TV commercial star.

Reprints

• from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #285 (March 1975)

Superman's Command Performance (Table of Contents: 9)

Superman / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script

Cary Bates (credited)

Pencils

Curt Swan (credited)

Inks

Frank Chiaramonte (credited)

Colors

Gene D'Angelo (credited)

Letters

Ben Oda (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

There goes the giant meteor I sent hurtling on a collision course with Metropolis!

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Superman [classic design, angled u bottom]

Genre

superhero

Characters

Lois Lane; Lana Lang; Steve Lombard; Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Jerry; Arthur; Mike; Frank; Ryjel

Synopsis

Superman is mentally controlled by children who don't realize what they are doing. Turns out an alien kid is participating in order to bring Superman to their clubhouse.

Reprints

• from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #497 (July 1979)

Swamp Thing Is Back! (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

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